Green County DHIA Newsletter

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1 July 2015 Upcoming Events Green County DHIA Newsletter July Green Co. Fair, All Dairy Cattle must be checked between 9 AM 3 PM on Tuesday, July 21st 25 Green County Fair Meat Animal Auction, 10:00 AM - Fur and Feather,12:30 PM - Stock Pavilion, Green County Fairgrounds 26 Dairy Youth Recognition Auction and Cheese Auction, 1 PM Green County Fairgrounds August 6-16 Wisconsin State Fair, West Allis, WI 12 Organic Pasture Management Field Day, 10:30-3, Morning Dew Dairy, N3808 Duncan Hill Rd, Argyle 20 Green County UW-Extension Dairy Modernization Tours, 10:30-3:00 PM 20 Green County Beef Producers Steak Out 5-8 PM Green County Fairgrounds Wisconsin Farm Technology Days, 9AM 5PM, Statz Bros. Inc County Rd VV, Sun Prairie, WI Green County Dairy Youth Recognition Auction: July 26 The 13 th Annual Dairy Youth Recognition Auction will be held on Sunday July 26 at 1 pm, at the Green County Fair in conjunction with the Cheese Auction. Ten 4-H and FFA dairy exhibitors will be recognized for their outstanding accomplishments at the 2015 County Fair during the auction. A keepsake engraved glass award is given to each successful bidder along with a gift box of cheese. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the auction are paid out to the ten dairy exhibitors that are recognized in the auction and the other 50% goes into a scholarship fund for dairy youth in Green County. Last year s auction netted $15,625 in winning bids and donations from area businesses. Over $30,000 has been distributed in scholarships to Green County Youth over the past 11 years through proceeds generated from this auction. For more information on how to support youth in this auction contact the Green County UW-Extension Office at Wisconsin Farm Technology Days: August Statz Brothers, Inc., of Sun Prairie will be hosting the 2015 WFTD show. Three generations of Statz s milk 3,000 cows and run approximately 5,500 acres of corn, soybeans, forage and small grains. Their host farm will feature new dairy freestall barns and a double 50 Parallel parlor. They also operate a manure digester that supplies bedding for the herd and electricity to run the farm. Tours of the farm by bus will be provided by UW-Extension all three days of the show. The show is the largest outdoor farm show in Wisconsin. The show will feature UW-Extension s Education Station, Family Living tent, Progress Pavilion, Youth tent, Arts and Crafts Tent, Field Demonstrations and over 500 commercial exhibits. The farm is located at 5707 County VV, Sun Prairie. For more information go to their website at:

2 Green County Dairy Modernization Tours: August 20 th The UW-Extension in cooperation with the Green County Milk Quality Council and support from Union Bank and Trust and the Bank of Brodhead will be sponsoring Dairy Facility Farm Tours on Thursday, August 20, The tours will include seven dairy farms located in the Green County area that have all made modernization improvements to their dairy facilities to increase productivity and animal comfort as well as reduce labor. The Dairy Modernization Tours are held every two years and attract dairy producers and Ag professionals from over 13 counties and three states. The tours are popular with dairy farmers as they feature an open house format in which dairy producers can visit any number of the seven farms they wish between 10:30 am and 3 pm. There will not be a central meeting place or any formal presentation. Farmers can simply select which farms they would like to visit on their own time schedule between 10:30 am - 3 pm on August 20 th. A farm representative will be at each farm to answer questions for the tour participants. The tours will feature various sizes of dairy farms with herds ranging from cows. For producers interested in upgrading their milking facilities the tours will include a free flow robotic milking system, a Swing 10 Parabone parlor built into an existing stall barn, a double 8 Parabone parlor built onto an existing stall barn, a new double 8 Parallel parlor inside in new building, and two Herringbone parlors. Several cattle housing configurations will be featured on the tours including: three, four and six row freestall barns with natural ventilation. Two farms will feature 8 row freestall barns with cross ventilation systems. Bedding systems in the barns will include sand, bedded pack and recycled manure solids. The tours will include several young stock housing facilities including a building designed for baby calves with an automatic feeding system and positive pressure ventilation system. Examples of well-designed bedding pack housing for calves from weaning to 4 months with inside feeding and from five months to breeding age with outside feeding will also be included on the tours. Several manure handling systems with be included on the tours. Several farms will include daily scraping systems with mini manure pits for storage. Two farms feature long term manure storage. One with lagoons and another with a manure pit under the freestall barn that also features a screw press system used to separate manure solids to be reused for bedding. These tours are designed to help generate ideas for dairy producers who are considering future improvements and modernization in their own dairy facilities. Host farmers will be on hand to share their experiences in the building process and to explain what they like about their facility and what they might change if they were to do it again. Tour participants will be required to wear plastic boots that are being supplied at the host farms by Union Bank and Trust Company and the Bank of Brodhead. Farms to be included on the 2015 tours include: Village View Farm, 1295 County C Argyle; Morning Dew Dairy, N3808 Duncan Hill Rd, Argyle; Minder Farms, N2428 Allen Rd, Browntown; McGuire and Sons Farm, W5996 Town Center Road, Monroe; Sunset Ridge Farm, W2902 Oliver Rd, Monticello; Andrew and Jodi Houlberg, N4991 Spoerry Rd, Monticello; Wenger Farms, N1260 Mt Hope Rd, Brodhead. The complete farm descriptions along with tour maps showing the farm locations, can be received by contacting Mark Mayer, UW-Extension Dairy and Livestock Agent at or mark.mayer@ces.uwex.edu Tour information and maps can also be downloaded from the Green County UW-Extension web site at

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7 Green County DHIA Newsletter Green County DHIA, P.O. Box 400, Monroe, WI Bonnie Moser - Office Manager Field Technicians Office Phone July 2015 Sue Pudwill Jim Moser Diane Foulker Lisa Becherer Robert Cramer, Jr W3224 Norton Rd, Juda President Craig Tourdot W3872 Hwy 11-81, Monroe Vice Pres John Dieckhoff W2210 Pinnow Rd, Brodhead Sec/Treas Jeremy Mayer N3926 County Rd N, Monroe Director Andrew Houlberg N4991 Spoerry Rd, Monticello Director Stephanie Miranda W3120 Hwy KS, Juda Director Green County UW-Extension Office Justice Center th Street Monroe, Wisconsin Phone: Internet: green.uwex.edu COUNTY EXTENSION STAFF Mark Mayer, Dairy & Livestock Agent & Editor Victoria Solomon, Community Resource Development Educator Ellen Andrews, 4-H & Youth Development Educator Bridget Mouchon, Family Living Educator Jayne Butts, Extension Activity Assistant Amy Krass, Extension Activity Assistant Mark Mayer Dairy and Livestock Agent & Editor Green County The University of Wisconsin-Extension provides equal opportunities in employment and educational programming, including Title IX and the ADA requirements. Please make requests for reasonable accommodation to ensure equal access to educational programs as early as possible preceding the scheduled program, service or activity. If you need this material in an alternate format or other accommodations for access, please contact the UW-Extension Office at , voice or 711 for Wisconsin Relay.

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